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How about stamps showing games? Playing cards, board games, video games, etc... and related items. Outdoor games, too, providing they cannot also be called "sports".  |
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Coming in from a different angle Nells.....  The Thurn and Taxis boardgame: (Set up your own Postal Stagecoach company and strategy game)  |
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OK, I have found the mother lode..... Skipping, hopscotch playground wheelbarrow race leggo bubble blowing playhouse doll house building blocks jigsaw frog leaping horsies but where is knuckles  and tiddly winks? ..and a great stamp quiz question "On what stamp does Queen Elizabeth appear in a bubble?"  |
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| Edited by rod222 - 09/01/2011 12:46 am |
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Good set, Rod! I can't help but think there must be at least one stamp out there showing chess... anyone?? |
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Nells250 - Happy to oblige! Chess players, designed by Laszlo Kekesi after a 15th century woodcut illustration from English printer William Caxton's (ca. 1415~1422 – ca. 1492) "Chess Book," printed by offset, one of a seven stamp set issued by Hungary on June 6, 1974 to mark the 50th anniversary of the International Chess Federation and the 21st Chess Olympiad in Nice, June 6-30, Scott No. 2290. - nethryk  |
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Sweden had a set of six with different board games. I could only find a pic from Delcampe, but can you name all six games by the designs?  France has a set of stamps based on popular videogames:  |
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| Edited by Battlestamps - 09/02/2011 7:59 pm |
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Who knew? Rod is a Board Game Geek?
Arn't we all  I have (not so) fond memories of ending up bankrupt thousands of times, when I played my elder siblings at Monopoly. Perhaps the secret was, they were always the banker. Mind you, I had a lengendary thumb and could match all comers at marbles. (Aust sp : "Doogs") Answer (partly) Backgammon, patience, chess, dominoes, Top left and right |
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| Edited by rod222 - 09/02/2011 8:33 pm |
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Leisure Suit Larry! What a blast from the past. A rather desultory past. |
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Here is an image of another chess stamp from Hungary: Chess players, printed by photogravure, and issued on April 9, 1950 to publicize the World Chess Championship in Budapest, Scott No. 889. Note that the player on the left is wearing overalls, there is a factory in the left background, and a tractor in the right background. I suppose the propaganda message was that the game of kings is a popular pastime in the workers' paradise.  - nethryk  |
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| Edited by nethryk - 09/04/2011 4:28 pm |
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Interesting observation on the Hungarian,
the artist has the player picking up the piece from the base
that's also unusual.
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